First Endeavor's

First Endeavor's is two short stories written by Ted Iverson. They are: LunaTics The Mercury Ad Agency had been looking for an advertising campaign that would save them from an ailing economy. Jonah Trotter's team was the best that the agency had but even they had hit a dry spell. How could Jonah know that by spilling a cup of coffee on a book would lead to a new space race Rival, Luna Advertising steals one of Jonah's team members and with him Mercury's ideas This carries two of the world's greatest ad campaigns into space and then to the moon, touching off a chain of events that would change the way mankind lived forever... and Mine Alone Artoro Coalter was one of the Expanse Mining Company's best. A fatal matter transfer accident at the Kupier Belt ended his 16 years with the company abruptly. His wife Mileena must now decide whether or not to pick up her late husband's contract with Expanse. If she doesn't, how will she care for their two children? If she does, it would mean long dangerous periods away from home and someday mining the Kupier Belt, the very place where her husband perished. That day is now... After a rouge asteroid explodes Mileena finds herself fighting for survival and questioning the need to go on without the love of her life... Also included in this novella are the first five chapters of his first novel: Mission to the Stars: The Search for FTL.